Hydraulic engine



(No Model.

G. MASSIE.

. HYDRAULIC ENGLNE.

No. 244,639; Patented July19,1881.

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UNITED [STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

CUMBERLAND MASSIE, OELAULEDE COUNTY, MISSOURI.

HYDRAULIC ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,639, dated July 19,I881.

' I I Application filed May 19,1881. (No model.) i

.appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure lis a side elevation ofmy improved hydraulic engine, and Fig. 2 is avertical transverse section thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in hydraulic engines of thatclass employing reciprocating buckets, which receive the water fromabove-arranged chutes and transmit a rotary motion to the driving-wheelwhich drives the machinery, its object being to simplify theconstruction and arrangement of the parts and to obtain greater leverageor power of the water; and it consists in the combination, with theaforesaid parts, of reciprocating chutes, with their shaft, adaptedbyintermediate mechanism tooperate in harmony with the action of thereciprocating buckets, intermediate stationary chutes conducting thewater to the buckets while the reciprocating chutes receive the waterfrom a stationary funnel or chute communicatingwith the sluice or watersource, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A A indicate a rectangularhorizontal frame, at one end of which is arranged and fastened anupright similar frame, A.

B is a shaft hung in the lower end of the upright frame, and having adisk, or, about at its center, and two arms, 11, one arranged upon eachside of said disk, which are connected by the pitmen or rods 0 to thedrive-wheel B, or rather to its crank-shaft d.

G O are two buckets secured at the outer ends of two arms or spokes, e,fastened to the periphery of the disk at, each arm standing at about anobtuse angle with a horizontal plane passing through the disk when thebuckets are in a balanced position, as clearly understood from thedrawings.

D D are two reciprocating chutes, secured upon a shaft, f, bearing inthe upper ends of two inner uprights of the frame A, with one endprovided with a crank, f, connected by a short link, g, jointed to alonger lever, h, hung at h between one of the inner and one of the outeruprights of the frame A, The longer arm of the lever h is jointed to apitman, 1', connected or pivoted to one of the crankarr'ns b.

It will be noticed that by the aforesaid arrangement of parts, inaddition to obtaining a long sweep or leverage, and consequently anincreased reciprocation of the buckets, which accordingly increases theaction of the drivewheel, the chutes D are also reciprocated to causethem to operate in harmony with the reciprocating buckets andalternately direct the water, which they receive from the stationaryfunnel E above, into the fixed longer chutes F below, arrranged so as toconduct the water to the buckets at alternate intervals.

The water is received by the funnel E from the flume or water'source. V

This device dispenses with all incasing or inclosing of the parts toserve as means for holding or conducting the water, and thus simplifiesand forms a skeleton-machine, which greatly lessens expense.

I am aware that it is old to effect the alternate supply or feeding ofthe water to fixed deflecting-chutes bya valve hungin a neck of thechutes at their convergent ends.

By my construction and arrangement 1 dispense with the valve,substituting therefor and the fixed chutes reciprocating uniting chutesor funnels, by which I obtain increased leverage and power.

- Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent- In a hydraulic engine, the combination of the upperset of'reciprocating chutes, D D, disposed under the fixed funnel E andabove the.

stationary chutes F, and having a crank-shaft, ff, connected by a shortlink, 9, to alever, h, with its longer arm connected to a pitman, i,with the disk a, carrying the reciprocating bucketsC, and its shaft B,provided with arms b, one connected to the pitman t and both to thepitmen c and driving-wheel B, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: CUMBERLAND MASSIE. J. W. HANDLES, W. A. MErcALr.

